Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

by Bernard Lewis (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $31.00

  Recent events have made an understanding of the turmoil in the Middle East more important than ever. In these essays, Bernard Lewis, a leading expert on Islam, gives essential background on Middle Eastern conflicts with the West and shows how Islam -- from its first expansion to its interpretation by Saddam Hussein and other extremists -- has always been inextricably linked to the Western world.